Good grief, there is a Breckinridge Elkins web comic! To be honest, I probably knew about this in my first time pass through this blog, but I had a chance to give it a good read lately and I really enjoyed it. Not sure what else this guy has worked on, and it's amazing that the site is still up after a decade.
Breckinridge Elkins is by far my favorite Robert E. Howard character, more so than Conan and Solomon Kane. His mountain man stories are where Howard really started to come into his own as a writer and folklorist, and where he put most of his efforts in the last years or his life. The Conan stories (the originals, not the pastiches or stories adapted into Conan stories) read like man managing his bipolar disorder through writing. By the time we get to Elkins, it felt like he had passed a rough patch and was enjoying his professional life.
Then his dog died, his mother died, and he put a .38 in his own brain. He was 36.
Breckinridge Elkins is a reminder that adversity can be overcome, life can be good, and it can also be fleeting.
Enjoy.
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